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house Hospitals, and it has been recently decided to adapt a house
with about 2 acres of ground, the property of the Corporation,
for the purpose of taking in about 20 consumptive patients, the
intention being to admit these patients for short periods, with
3 objects, viz:—
1. For the purpose of teaching them to live an openair
life, to use pocket spittoons, and generally to take such
precautions as will minimise the danger of the spread of
infection when they return home.
2. For the purpose of giving the relatives rest, and
enabling the homes to be thoroughly disinfected.
3. For selecting such cases as may be found suitable
for sending to a Sanatorium.
It is also intended to have a Municipal Sanatorium, and the
City Council are at present negotiating for a suitable site.
The Medical Officer of Health further informed me that no
opposition has been experienced either on the part of the public
or the medical practitioners. There has doubtless been, he says,
some little failure to notify on the part of the medical practitioners,
but this is only what one would expect from a new Act.
The number of deaths from Consumption in the City of
Sheffield from November 1st, 1903, to October 31st, 1906—three
years—is as follows:—
1st year: Nov. 1st, 1903, to Oct. 31st, 1904—594 (38
not notified).
2nd year: Nov. 1st, 1904, to Oct. 31st, 1905—534 (30
not notified).
3rd year: Nov. 1st, 1905, to Oct. 31st, 1906—460 (32
not notified).
The Act is now being fairly well complied with. In a small
percentage of cases (1-2 per cent.), the medical man does not wish
the Inspector to call, the medical attendant being asked to fill in
an enquiry form and to use the printed leaflet provided by the